David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang, Playwright

Representative Plays:

Yellow Face (2008) 
Golden Child (1998) 
M Butterfly (1988)

Bio:

David Henry Hwang’s stage works includes the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Kung Fu, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida (co-author), Flower Drum Song (2002 revival) and Disney’s Tarzan. Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the most-produced living American opera librettist. He is currently writing the live-action musical feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Disney Studios. Hwang serves on the Board of the Lark Play Development Center, as Head of Playwriting at Columbia University School of the Arts, and as Chair of the American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards. M. Butterfly recently returned to Broadway in a revival directed by Julie Taymor, which marked Mr. Hwang’s eighth Broadway production. His newest work, Soft Power, a collaboration with composer Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), premiered in May 2018 at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre (six Ovation Awards, including Best Production) and San Francisco’s Curran Theatre and opened in New York in fall 2019.

Source: davidhenryhwang.com

Links:

David Henry Hwang's Website

Resources found in the UC Berkeley Library Database:

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Yellow Face (Full Text) 

Rich Relations (Full Text) 

Topics

East Asian topic page, LGBTQIA+ topic page, Playwrights topic page, Pulitzer Prize Winner/Finalist topic page

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